<p>Possible Common App Essay? I have other essays done already for supplements and etc. but i just want to know if i could possibly use this story somewhere.</p>
<p>My Specific Experience starts out in Chicago at a National Leadership Conference for FBLA. (Future Business Leaders of America)</p>
<p>Now what happens is , We(my friends and i ) are walking from our hotel to the opening ceremonies (which is literary 1 block away and within our perspective) when all of a sudden a person (who i guess was sitting on the bench of this park which so happens to be in between our hotel and where the opening ceremonies are).</p>
<p>The man quickly starts talking to one of my friends and begins to pour some kind of liquid on his shoe. Within a span of 10 seconds, 5 more people approach us and just start pouring liquid onto our shoes. Now after 2 mins of retaliting and requesting them to stop “shinning our shoes”, they quickly tuck in their towels and ask us for 20 dollars.</p>
<p>One of my friends (as cowardly as he is) throws the 20 dollar bill and starts to run. The other one starts to fight and question their reason for approaching them and how we owe them nothing. </p>
<p>As scared as we are we quickly give them our money and walk away - half in shock of what just happened.</p>
<p>Out of pure anger and just being rash- we call 9-1-1.</p>
<p>The second after we call 9-1-1 , we call our adviser who is overwhelmed and at the same time confused.</p>
<p>She then calls us over to her room where we , half shocked and half speechless, try to explain what happened. </p>
<p>She soon gets furious and says " How could you call 911 . Thats not even an emergency. What would happen if someone was choking and was dying and for some reason could not connect because of your call . ( Which makes no sense sincce there are more than 1 operator -_-")</p>
<p>We tried to state our case but she kept using WHAT IF situations.</p>
<p>Soon after we got prohibited from basically even leaving the hotel. We are forced to call her even if we step out of our room for a minute to go to the main lobby.</p>
<p>Yet we still placed 8th in nationals =) </p>
<p>And it was a fun trip (partly because of what happened).</p>
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<p>Now well this was my story where we basically got “shoe shined”/</p>
<p>Now i was wondering can i make this into an essay with some kind of moral to it or connection to me? I am applying to various Business schools and it is a BUSINESS CONVENTION. </p>
<p>I dont know, I am just trying to find some kind of way to link this to a positive personalty or way to make this my common app essay.</p>
<p>If you had to use this situation how would make this into an essay basically?</p>
<p>Just curious if this would work.</p>
<p>I doubt it but hey- it was one fun trip.</p>